Can We Have Skype & iPhones & Media Romantic Moments?

Microsoft announced it bought money-losing Skype for $8 billion. That's not the way Alexander Graham Bell started. CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft was trying to be gushingly happy about the marriage. But what does an overworked, dull dog geek know about communications at the personal level? Sure Skype has 170,000,000 users but that didn't stop Apple or Google from dominating personal communicators in spite of Skypes lead. No it's not about stuff it's about seamless personal comfort when using the stuff.

Sorry Steve but not all the players in communcation devices will succeed. And why should they. It turns out that for every talk-happy user of hand held devices there are many voyeurs who like to watch and listen. Whether its Facebook or Twitter or private conversations there are predators in many forms. Some are scavengers for information that can be resold. Some are sexual creeps who are looking for gratification at a base level or criminal level. In either case the hapless user may regret being open and gabby. Privacy seems to be a personal no mans zone. Avoid privacy says Steve Jobs. Avoid privacy says the baby faced pair at Google. And now Steve Ballmer convincingly joins the anti-privacy movement. Who would want to confide in Steve Ballmer?

With privacy slipping away one of the casualties will be romanticism. Romantics by definition avoid public glare. Romanticism has been replaced with light or heavy pornography in all its forms.

BREAKING NEWS: Silvio Berlesconi Offers Deal

A desperate Silvio Berlesconi, Prime Minister of Italy, has offered a deal to opponents. Silvio has been tied to numerous sex scandals including under age and under- the- table affairs. In exchange for retaining his postion, he will  get a GPS surgicically placed in his body. The tracking systems will also be available on Twitter and Facebook. His movements, pardon any puns, will be tracked 24/7. In fact the pugnacious grease ball has thrown down a challenge to all world politicians/characters to follow his example. Bill Clinton is studying the proposal and has commisioned a poll before commenting. Goldman Sachs is considering making a market on the reliability of the GPS device and publishing the markets on the social networks venues. Mayor Bloomberg has immediately pleaded no contest. He was quoted, " Why would anyone want to know the sex life of a five foot kike.?"George W Bush was napping and didn't return any calls.

Gavin Newsom Governor's Race Website

" Hi, I'm Gavin Newsom and I'm running away from my mayors job and running for governor of California. My plans for California and philosophy in general can be summed up in Cole Porter's hit "Anything Goes". That's why you can hear his song in the backround. I believe that California's borders and laws are virtual and consequently left to interpretation. All peoples are invited. Now that's a simple a message.

Please hit up Twitter, My Space, Facebook and other popular web sites to read and hear my message in 32 different languages including Yiddish and   trash- rap- gangsta dialects. Also I appear in frontal nudity on a restricted porn site together with my wife and selected members of the gay/boy, lesbian/girl benevolent societies.

Keep in mind that this is only a start. Together we can take it all to the next level. Vote Gavin Newsom."